WARNING: This article is out of date
Please use follow this article to install MineMeld on a recent Ubuntu 16.04 distribution: https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/MineMeld-Articles/Manually-install-MineMeld-on-Ubuntu-Server-16-04/ta-p/253336
Click on the following link to create a new deployment of the MineMeld ARM Template in your Microsoft Azure account:
Deploy To Azure
Accessing the instance
After the template has been fully deployed, an INSTANCEWEBUI field appears in the Outputs section of the template results. The address in the field is the FQDN of the instance.
During initialization you can connect to the instance only via SSH using the credentials supplied via the template parameters. In this phase the loader is updating the Ubuntu packages, and downloading & installing the latest version of MineMeld. This phase should take a couple of minutes:
$ ssh ubuntu@mmdemo.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com The authenticity of host 'mmdemo.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com (40.113.113.154)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is 7e:8a:71:d5:c9:83:1b:a0:a6:0b:ca:c5:dc:de:75:54. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added 'mmdemo.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com,40.113.113.154' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. ubuntu@mmdemo.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com's password: Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.16.0-43-generic x86_64) [...] Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Initalizing minemeld. It could take some minutes, please wait .....|....
At the end of the initialization you should see a message where all the minemeld services are RUNNING:
Initalizing minemeld. It could take some minutes, please wait ..|....... DONE ! MINEMELD STATUS: minemeld-engine RUNNING pid 43691, uptime 0:00:08 minemeld-traced RUNNING pid 43692, uptime 0:00:08 minemeld-web RUNNING pid 43693, uptime 0:00:08 ubuntu@vm1:~$
Accessing the WebUI
After the initialization is completed, the WebUI can be accessed on port 443 via https with default credentials Username: admin Password: minemeld